Source: Knight Ridder Newspapers
Posted: November 7, 2005
Summary:
Knight Ridder Newspaper reports on plans by Geron Corporation to begin a human trial of a stem cell treatment for spinal cord injury:
"Scientists have made stunning progress helping paralyzed rats and mice walk again by injecting them with stem cells. Now researchers at Geron of Menlo Park, Calif., want to take the next step - in people. The procedure - which Geron intends to do next year - would be the first human tests of a treatment derived from human embryonic stem cells, the highly versatile body cells that can be coaxed into becoming almost any tissue in the body."
